KateP's musings

I was going to make every effort to get things done today.   Well, I had a slow start by mid-morning I managed to Empty the dishwasher, one load of laundry,, and finished yesterday’s entries and posted them to the blogs. I was also going to get to the gym this morning and haven’t happened yet and at this rate not going to until later this afternoon or before I go to bed. I wrote a letter to my pal in KY Kathy F since I haven’t heard from her in several weeks.   I haven’t a reply yet. I will work on organizing the whole pen pal files later.   This evening I was watching Summer H’s live video from NC.   She does it once in a while.   I am not sure I want to watch her do some letter writing while she is videotaping this but what can I do about. I also made the last of the cookies.   I made six dozen.   The batches I made only did two dozen at time….I think it’s enough…I will put them in the trays probably Sunday morning. Aw Damn I just ...

I am hoping my previous entries made enough sense as I was trying to combine them for each of the days and it was not working out.   I made notes to myself so I would remember certain things by the end of the day when I wrote them.   Unfortunately I started to write them all a few days later. Today I took off and made 2 dozen of the Almond Joy Cookies found on three different Pinterest sites.   The one I did was the simplest one.   I have to still make 3 more I believe.   I have three trays that arrived from Amazon the other day and I probably will need to get a couple of more. I checked the ones I have in a container and they don’t seem like they are hardened.   I hope it doesn’t turn into mush.    I have been getting a lot of support from FB friends and allies.   Around 3 I made some more realizing I will need to get more coconut now.   The 2 dozen cookies I made around 3 seem a little more firm and the others feel like a bi...

Yesterday I mentioned it was my nephew Johns birthday right well today I learned he and his wife have separated.  I had been reading all the birthday greetings and wanted to see what his age was and in the relationship status it read: Separated.  I wont say I am devastated but I am saddened.  Unfortunately, the pictures and the postings early on made me uncomfortable (always showing they were drinking and that’s an issue in our family).  So I can only guess what the cause could have been.  I also realized none of them were posting regularly.  I am also a little annoyed that Ethel nor Diane were not compelled to give us a heads up.  I somehow think Sis knows and I wondering why she gave no indication.  I do remember Bob (my late brother) saying its not another persons job to deliver bad news.  IT should come directly from the person.  That’s great but what if they don’t talk?  My coworker who is friends with Jen and Chris tells m...

Once my headache was gone thanks to some tylenol from my friend Annie.  The day got better.  As I said earlier got to scanning and DG finished or at least started the sorting of the mail.  LUckily or hopefully she will have something else to do come Monday because there is no mail delivery and that usually could mean that even the healthlogic is delayed a day (I am thinking it will be moved back a day or so ( or is it up?). Tonight was the Yale vs Dartmouth game and also employee night.  Several of my colleagues were all excited because there was going to be food and apparently fun.  I chose not to go for  a few reasons.  I have things to do, and my last time I went to a football game for Yale I was bored out of my mind. The city seem brimming with energy.  People walking, and driving and going to the various restaurants, bars and activity in the city.  I was surmising that they also were also going to the game tonight.  I even ra...

I had these big plans to be up at dawn get Vlad and Preston all taken care until this afternoon and then head back home to get things done there.   Well I stayed in bed until 6 (I didn’t sleep well) then got the boys taken care of. I almost had anxious moments when Vlad walked out into the outer hallway of the apartment I had to grab him and put him back inside.  He wasn’t pleased but I made sure i made it up to him when I got back from walking Preston.  I did manage to feed the menagerie. The sun was pretty much risen when I got to the house.  I stopped at DD for some coffee and came here. The kitties were waiting for me on the stairs and came to me when I walked in. I started working on the cheesecake (setting up the cream cheese ) and then I fed them.  They were very vocal at that point.  I got them fed and then started looking at the ingredients and realized I forgot the lemon.  I ran to the grocery store and got the lemon. When I got h...

It came sometime after sundown. My sister called me to see what I wanted earlier today but she was sleeping. She was noticing she was doing a lot of sleeping and I told her there is nothing wrong with that. I tried to take a picture of the snow from the back room but it came out dark (no flakes showing in the outside light). I checked a time or two and it seemed to subside then I checked in my familiar place. It is the street lamp on New Haven avenue at the end of our street. You can always tell if its raining or snowing in the light. Today was a normal Sunday. I relaxed and waited for the laptop to finish its update (it hasn't of this writing). I watched TV for sometime and then around 11 I decided I would do the shopping as I kept hearing the news about the "snow event". The sky was turning a light sunny gray and getting cold to boot. My first stop to get gas but the second was to Wal*Mart. Yes Wal*Mart. I got most of my groceries and cleaning s...

Well the cheesecake was delivered and I waited anxiously for the bake sale to start.  I took it out of the freezer before I left around 7 and put it in the cooler carrier that I left in the car for the last 11 plus days.  It did the trick for what I needed.  I eventually got it to the drop off point and just as I was taking it out of the cooler the entire cake (crust and all) nearly fell on the floor.  Luckily it fell back into place with little effort.  HR Barbara did contact me to get the name of the cake.  However, By the end of the day I know it wasn’t bought.  :sad:  One of my co-workers says it was priced too high for the bake sale. I spent the day working on the mail from yesterday and today and just barely touched the refunds. I know what I am going to be doing tomorrow.  At least I left knowing I managed to do a lot of stuff. My session with Debra went by quickly.  We talked about the events of the last week and we disc...

I was so tired yesterday from the previous night’s activities (dinner and theater, coming home late) and of course waking up earlier than normal.  I didn’t post much but i did manage to get check in but not do any writing actually that’s not true I did update my health blog.  I didn’t even text my sis or brother. A point Jim made last night via text. I did hear from Liz yesterday.  She wanted to make sure I had a great time Sunday night.  I told her i did and that I enjoyed being with them all.  Now I just have to find something for her for Christmas.  She was wistful about a few things as well.    I found out later this afternoon she had called because she was in the “neighborhood” and wanted to stop by and say hi.  I called her back before leaving for home but she was playing cards with Chris. I saw my health coach yesterday and still managed to lose 1 lb of weight.  We will meet  on the 14th instead of a week from ...

Well it looks like Sis and I are going to do some interesting baking this weekend for the bake and plant sale on Sunday. One was almost like apple tarts and the other a Canoli cake and if either of those do not work we will use the frozen cookie as back up. So we made plans for her to come here so we can look over among other things recipes and put a grocery list together. The recipes may be fun but I hope not that overwhelming. I don’t want to turn anyone off there who will be buying it either. Oh “among other things”? Include going over the bills, showing me how to turn on the furnace (not from the thermostat), how to download from the SIMS card that is in the cell phone, and fill out the paperwork from the cable company to change the names on the accounts.  I tried to download the sim card t to the tower/hard drive and it didn’t work. Now I am thinking I was supposed to click on the app to back up and then move it to the laptop. I was all set to go to AT&T sto...

On Saturday August 23, 2014 mother ended her battle with Pancreatic Cancer.   She is no longer in Pain. She was surrounded by her family and care givers.   She was 87 years old.   Services will be Wednesday and Thursday.   God Bless you Mom.

Hey everyone hope all is well. It’s been a long day here and so I won’t be on long. Last night had a great time but left my cell phone in Roberta’s car last night so I was lost with out it until this evening. I can honestly say I am now into a new card game. It’s the Military Whist Card game . It was a lot of fun and I did pretty well my first time playing. Some took it way too seriously and others were just so fun with it. There were snacks and cake and coffee during the three hour game. Needless to say I part took in that as well. Ended up not feeling well and spending time in the bathroom after the event. It was quite embarrassing. We were back home by 11 and I watched TV and shortly after midnight went to bed. This morning I stayed in bed until maybe 8. I wanted to be up early so I could get to the folk mass at St Mary’s. That was not “in the cards”. I got ready for Bingo and made a quick stop for breakfast and Dunkin Doughnuts. I had their smoked house egg and cheese sandwich...

The last few days have been busy between work, the pie baking at Hopkins; and the retirement party Thursday I haven’t slept regularly. Mom gets concerned that I don’t get enough sleep or I get up early. Work is fine we are preparing for the visit from NEMG on Monday I spent a few hours today (Saturday) at the office working on readdress mail and getting rid of it all. Most of it was old so it got dumped. Friday was my 20th anniversary as a full time employee at Yale. It was also a pre-birthday Celebration for CD as her birthday is on Thanksgiving and we wouldn’t be there. The retirement party was wonderful Carol was truly touched and there were at least 45 people there. The food was delicious and bountiful. Carol received a beautiful necklace. Mom is okay. She is currently cooking right now and will be getting ready for 5:30 mass. She had meetings this week and got her hair cut. It really looks nice. She also attended Carol’s retirement party with me. The beginning of the week...

I was just sitting here thinking about what I want to do this weekend. I looked over my appointment book and calendar and see that I have no major plans outside of the house except my normal Sunday activities. I am planning on sleeping in today (Saturday). I haven’t done that in quite some time. Depending on when I get off this computer now will sleep past 8. My “To-Do List” is going to be simple: 1. Laundry 2. Make bed 3. Throw away old papers. 4. Vacuum room 5. Go to the store with Mom if she is going (rather doubt it since she has been there a few times this week). 6. Watch NCIS tonight. There is an off night episode on CBS tonight. 7. See if I can pay some bills 8. Get rid of some emails that are piling up (or at least move them to the various files I have) Sunday I don’t have any major plans either. (This list will probably be in tomorrow’s entry as well) 1. Bingo 2. Church 3. Buy bus pass 4. write in Blogs 5. update files 6. Attempt long ...

Well hello everyone. It is just about 8 Saturday nigh and I am so tired. I got up early and got ready for the day. As the title of the entry says today was the MYWC Pie in the Sky project with Hopkins School. I left a little after 8 and drove to the school with no problem. The school is on hills on Forest Road. The campus is beautiful the buildings were massive. They have a beautiful view of New Haven from where they are. I couldn’t help but feel they are so close to town but have a world of their own. The surrounding homes were beautiful and I would have loved to see how far forest road would go. I probably still could. I met the other students from all over the new haven area (and some from Fairfield county as well) some of the students (there were boys there too) were sophomores and juniors. Their teacher was Mrs. Lane. She was a former Research tech at Yale and now a science teacher at Hopkins. Roberta was there and her leg bothering her. She says she is going to have...

Monday November 2: I got up bright an early and got ready for work and got the car over to the garage all by 7. Happily it was someone else there instead of the guy from yesterday. I explained to the guy what happened and I think he understood. The only thing is the thermostat didn’t do anything on the way over. He said he would have Frank call me. The car was fixed later that day. Election Day 2009: Was a royal disappointment for us in Milford. The Republican incumbent for mayor retained his job and a number of our candidates lost their seats and some never made it. It was a sad day indeed. Work has been overall stressful. I had been doing OT trying to get the office back into shape. Last Saturday both Gayle and I worked on it and now it is beautiful. More tasks have been added (collection letters) and after a few days Gayle doesn’t want to have any of us (me especially) do it. Considering we have so much filing and scanning to be done. There have been a lot of budget con...

It is almost 8:30 Sunday night and I am exhausted. First I did my bingo with “my team”. I was the first to arrive and started the coffee. After a while the girls came and they started getting everyone. I had made the announcement so the residents were starting to come down anyway. The Bingo session went well. I started the games and the girls finished them. As soon as it was done we headed to Telka’s. The girls had to do some things first and came later. I arrived just as Donna K and her Mom were arriving. Telka greeted us at the door. Roberta was near by. I was pleasantly surprised because I expected her to be with family today. Roberta had the days mixed up. We got started on the whole process. Telka gave us instructions and then the assembly line began. The 120 lbs of apples were washed and then we started the peeling and coring while the toehrs got the other ingredients done. The next several hours there was fun, laughter, food, and stories. We even had our pictures t...

I had received a weird phone call around midnight today. The person calling identified themselves as a police officer (after asking them twice) and asked to talk to my son and I told them I don’t have a son and what is this in reference and they wanted to talk to him about harassing phone calls. Then they asked to talk to my boyfriend. Again I told him I don’t have one. Now they would have asked for the guy’s last name or wouldn’t they have at least known who they were calling? Now I am wondering if they will continue to call me and do the harassing phone calls. You see I have lost my license and the id holder (again). I called Stop and Shop last night to see if anyone picked it up or reported it to the customer service. I am wondering if I am setting myself up for problems. I hope not. Okay let’s talk about the last few days. Mom had her surgery on Thursday despite the fact it had a late start it went very well she in Recovery by 3. The Doctor called just about then and told me she di...